Master of 1328

As a master of painters in 1328 a book is referred to, has illustrated the list of merchants (it. Matricola dei Merciai ) of Bologna in Italy to 1328. The work is now preserved in the museum of the city of Bologna.

Style

Still style, iconography, and formalism of Byzantine icon painting related parties already shows the work of the masters of the 1328 takeover of Northern Italy of new stylistic form and color, as it is found also in the late work of Giotto. The creation of the Master seems to be the first example of such newer imagery in the art of illumination in Bologna, even if it still remains true to the style of his contemporaries in Bologna for the most part.

Works (selection)

• List of merchants of Bologna ( Matricola dei Merciai )
• Antiphonal ( choir book ) for monastery of Saint Domenico in Bologna
• The decrees of Gratian ( Decretum of Gratian )

The Master of 1328 was primarily secular, eg Administrative and legal texts illuminated.

Stylistic relationship with Nerio

The style of the Master of 1328 is used by art historians to be very closely with the style of the book painter saw that a work, now in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, signed " Created by Nerio " has (Latin Nerius Fecit ).